Blatant cheating by umpires - “having a ‘mare” this century

[frosty]

@Glu

@Houli_Dooley

12 free kicks a piece

I feel like this is too often a metric the umpires feel pressure to even up, but in reality it’s uncommon for both teams to have the same number of actual fouls. When one team is harder at the opposition players than another, and intentionally holding players off the ball, or hitting players after they dispose of it, we shouldn’t have any issue with the free kicks being unfairly distributed.

I missed the 12 apiece earlier.

So there’s an average of one rule broken every 4 minutes. (And that includes the dubious deliberate frees that only exist so that the umpires can get involved at the stupidest times). So massive periods where the players play beautifully within the rules. What a load of garbage.